Motor vehicle



April 2, 1940. o. WINDBERGER MOTOR VEHICLE Filed Oct. 31, 1936 Patented, Apr. 2 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MOTOR VEHICLE Othmar Windberger, Steyr, Austria Applicati This invention relates to a motor vehicle for passengers, in which the body space is lengthened wheel or the sparewheels is provided above or.

behind the rear axle, in such a Way that the space v i wheelor spare wheels is disposed'below the lug- 1 1 between the axles can be entirely utilized for the seats or the rows of seats. The seats, the luggage space (trunk or the like) and the spare wheel space maybe enclosed in stream-like body work,

preferably with a stream-line engine bonnet, forming a continuation thereof for the engine;

which is disposed iniront. Such an arrangement provides .the advantage that, through the arrangement of the, engine in front of the front axle, the vehicle space occupied by the body work can be considerably lengthened. or enlarged, thus allowing for the requirement in the case of small vehicles, that the wheel base should be kept as the arrangement ofthe seating, ,sojthatthe seatscan be placed closeto the floor, that is to say, as i a loW-asthe height of the floor will permit.

A streamline construction of the body work provides the further advantage, that-the arrange-'- me'nt of the luggage space and the spare wheel 40 which is impossible with body work of another shape. The stream-line body work also provides advantages for the construction of the, vehicle with a sliding roof, in so far as the sliding roof can be made capable of sliding or opening backwards space behind the passenger space,

The arrangement according to the, invention space can be harmoniously embodied in this form, I i

into or towards the luggage space and spare wheel on October 31, 1936, Serial No. 108,533

In Austria November 6, 1935 (crass-47) g fling arranged below the space for the travelling trunk but behind the rear axle and being accessi bl'e from the outside or from the back.

In the accompanyingdrawing a constructional example of the invention is shown.

5 -In front of the front axle I is disposed the e'ngine Z, whilst the luggage spacefi and'the space 5 for the spare wheel are disposed substantially behind the rear axle 4.1 The space 5 for the spare gage space and separated from thelatterby the wall 6, and is accessiblefrom the outside, this axle in no way interferes ,with the seating '20: arrangement, so that the seats can be placed as low as the height of the floor will permit. The passenger'space 8 and the luggage and spare wheel 'spaces3, 5, are .jointly enclosed in stream- 7 line body work 9, whilst the engine 2. is covered 25,

by the engine bonnet lfi in stream-linefashion.

-According to the constructional example shown in the drawingthe stream-line body work is provided with a sliding roof II, the body work having in the regions of the sliding roofthe form of a body of convolution, that isto say, is of uniform longitudinal curvaturein the region swept over by the sliding roof and is formed in all the cross-' sectional places of this region with at least approximately the same cross profile, so that the sliding roof canbe pushed towards the luggage space. v J

What i clair n is: l e A passenger motor car comprising a stream-s f lined shell enclosing the passenger and rear lug- 40 gage compartments, a stream lin'ed hood portion enclosing the engine, a floor portionextending between the front and rear wheelaxles, a'vertic'al wall at the rear end of the floor, another floorextending fromthe upper edge of said wall to the rear end ofv the shell, a compartment underneath -said'second floor having an opening atits rear and a closure'member for said opening, said clovI suremember being streamlined toconform'tothe'shape of'the shell. v I

, y OTHMAR W INDBERGER. 

